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[stevoomba]

Hi. I've been trying to have my firefox profile in my home directory instead of root, but none of the instructions I've read here or elsewhere seem to have helped. Whatever I do Firefox just keeps putting my profile in /root/.mozilla/firefox

So I had a look at how to create a new profile pointing to my profile directory in /mnt/home/firefox/profile and I found this extension allowed me to do it:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/profileswitcher/

But I did have to add the following text to the /root/.mozilla/firefox/profiles.ini file:

[Profile1]
Name=steve
IsRelative=0
Path=/mnt/home/firefox/profile
Default=1

As this is a bit fiddly, does anyone know an easy way of making a portable firefox use a profile in its own (/home/firefox) directory?

cheers,
Steve

[tlchost]

copy the .mozilla directory to /mnt/home
then, delete the .mozilla directory form /root
then, reboot and save

Now, Puppy "knows" that .mozilla is NOT in /root
Create a link from the /mnt/home/.mozilla to /root/mozilla
I do it by ctrl left button on the /mnt/home/.mozilla and
dragging it to /root and indicating I want to create an absolute link

I run bootable usb, and in doing the above all my puppies can use
the same .mozilla directory.

Good Luck

[stevoomba]